UPDATE: "Maleficent" is becoming magnificent at the box office as it pulled in an estimated $24.2 million Friday. The projections are now running in the range of a $65-70 million opening weekend. Mainly on the strength of Angelina Jolie.

UPDATE: A Memorial Day holiday means more box office talk as Monday dawns. It looks like "X-Men: Days of Future Past" will dominate the long holiday as both the three-day and four-day totals are tabulated.

Marvel Comics confirmed its plans Friday to kill off one of its most iconic characters. Following a series of comics set for release in June, a follow-up series will come out in September ultimately ending in Wolverine's death.

After singing and dancing his way across the stages of Broadway, Toronto and his native Sydney, the part-time' X-Men' mutant Wolverine has returned to motion pictures with the thrilling robot-boxing movie 'Real Steel' (now on Blu-ray & DVD).

'X-Men: First Class' (now on Blu-Ray/DVD) traces the origins of the X-Men, particularly Charles Xavier, played by Wanted and Last King Of Scotland star James McAvoy. McAvoy reveals how he mutated into Professor Xavier, one of the leader of the Mutants.

Comic book films are an interesting animal. Filmmakers have almost always failed to delicately balance paying homage to the source material and making a good movie. In trying, it seems for every good comic book movie there are five terrible ones.